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edwardhu
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Looking to write a mobile application targeting both iOS and Android. It will be fairly basic (most complicated functions will be push notifications, asynchronous JSON fetching). I am fairly proficient at both Swift and iOS as well as JavaScript web development (react) but have never tried react native. Any thoughts on React Native vs Native Swift / Java?

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    7y
    I'd like to know as well about React native pitfalls if there are any?
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    7y
    I'm fine with java as a whole. But I got some reason did not enjoy android development in it. I use phonegap now, likely switching to Xamarin in the near future as my skill set is C#. My experience with react native is limited but I preferred it over java. Swift is fine.
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    7y
    We've been evaluating react native for some time now - it's pretty nice but can get messy when you want to use hardware (Bluetooth in our case). There are many nice community packages available that help you out but many of them don't work (as we would have expected)
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    7y
    Like @dsteiner pointed out hardware can get interesting in any JavaScript based framework. I imagine react is better than phonegap for that. Teleriks nativescript claims to get around that by simply providing direct access to the device API's through JavaScript. But I've never used it for more than a hello world.
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